* Russell Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tom mentioned that he had not had these security concerns raised before. > From > my point of view I just have no idea about the level of information offered > to any given user and am scared to run PostgreSQL in an ISP shared > environment because of it. I am sure I can secure people from connecting to > a db by refusing them access in pg_hba.conf. But I'm unsure of exactly what > that buys me, and what is doesn't.
It's certainly also a concern of mine that any given use can see every table in the database. I see that as a definite problem and just assumed it was already on the radar and something that was planned to be fixed. It astounds me that the claim is that such security is impossible. It bothers me a great deal that I can't control very easily what a given user can see when they connect over ODBC or via phppgadmin in terms of schemas, tables and columns. I fixed this in application code in phppgadmin but that's clearly insufficient since it doesn't do anything for the other access methods. I'd certainly really like to see this fixed. It would raise my comfort level a great deal wrt allowing people to use ODBC and psql directly. Thanks, Stephen
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